A comparative study of international and Chinese public health emergency management from the perspective of knowledge domains mapping

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Di Wu¹  Kseniia Begma²  Weijing Meng³  Suzhen Wang⁴  Juan Li⁴  Jianing Feng⁴  Gaopei Zhu⁴  Fuyan Shi⁴  Xiaoxuan Wang⁴  Yuhang Zhu⁵ 

[1] Department of Teaching Quality Monitoring and Evaluation, Weifang Medical University, 261053, Weifang, People’s Republic of China;School of Foreign Languages, Weifang Medical University, 261053, Weifang, People’s Republic of China;School of Life Science and Technology, Weifang Medical University, 261053, Weifang, People’s Republic of China;School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, 261053, Weifang, People’s Republic of China;School of Public Health, Weifang Medical University, 261053, Weifang, People’s Republic of China;Center for Psychosocial Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246, Hamburg, Germany;

关键词: Public health;    Emergency management;    Knowledge domains;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12199-020-00896-z

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAt the end of 2019, the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) severely damaged and endangered people’s lives. The public health emergency management system in China has played an essential role in handling the response to the outbreak, which has been appreciated by the World Health Organization and some countries. Hence, it is necessary to conduct an overall analysis of the development of the health emergency management system in China. This can provide a reference for scholars to aid in understanding the current situation and to reveal new research topics.MethodsWe collected 2247 international articles from the Web of Science database and 959 Chinese articles from the China National Knowledge Infrastructure database. Bibliometric and mapping knowledge domain analysis methods were used in this study for temporal distribution analysis, cooperation network analysis, and co-word network analysis.ResultsThe first international article in this field was published in 1991, while the first Chinese article was published in 2005. The research institutions producing these studies mainly existed in universities and health organizations. Developed countries and European countries published the most articles overall, while eastern China published the most articles within China. There were 52 burst words for international articles published from 1999–2018 and 18 burst words for Chinese articles published from 2003–2018. International top-ranked articles according to the number of citations appeared in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2014, 2015, and 2016, while the corresponding Chinese articles appeared in 2003, 2004, 2009, and 2011.ConclusionsThere are differences in the regional and economic distribution of international and Chinese cooperation networks. International research is often related to timely issues mainly by focusing on emergency preparedness and monitoring of public health events, while China has focused on public health emergencies and their disposition. International research began on terrorism and bioterrorism, followed by disaster planning and emergency preparedness, epidemics, and infectious diseases. China considered severe acute respiratory syndrome as the starting research background and the legal system construction as the research starting point, which was followed by the mechanism, structure, system, and training abroad for public health emergency management.

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